Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Brazil and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Eurythmics to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Velvet Underground. All the underground hits.
All Urselle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlback record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Ronnie Foster,
X-101,
New Age Steppers,
Eric Copeland,
Radiohead,
Thee Headcoats,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Skarface,
Absolute Body Control,
KRS-One,
Animal Collective,
Leonard Cohen,
The Wake,
Wire,
Lindisfarne,
Dawn Penn,
Visage,
Rufus Thomas,
Eric Dolphy,
ABC,
Nation of Ulysses,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Tomorrow,
The Doors,
The Alarm Clocks,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Flesh Eaters,
Electric Prunes,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Au Pairs,
Cymande,
Boz Scaggs,
The Fortunes,
DJ Style,
New Order,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
L. Decosne,
Soul II Soul,
Shuggie Otis,
Bootsy Collins,
Maurizio,
Soul Sonic Force,
Minnie Riperton,
Angry Samoans,
John Cale,
Morten Harket,
Fela Kuti,
Excepter,
Laurel Aitken,
Barclay James Harvest,
Public Enemy,
Wally Richardson,
The Associates,
The Mummies,
Country Joe & The Fish,
UT,
The Cure,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Reagan Youth,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.